‘As the postings manager who put up the piece by Jonathan Blakely, entirely on my own initiative, it is quite wrong to attribute the decision to post a piece by Jonathan Blakely to JfJfP. It is a credit to JfJfP’s belief in freedom of speech that my decisions are not supervised, but in this case I made a serious mistake. As a former journalist and teacher journalism I have always insisted on the supremacy of the source. In the case of Zimoz and Liam Fox I was working at such speed that I failed to check the integrity of the source. Had I done so, I would never have posted the piece whatever the merits of the information in it. A source which mocks the reality of anti-semitism and which treats Israel as an anathema has no place in the website for which I provide information.
The post was removed as soon as I was alerted to the the nature of its source. Any attempt to convert my error into an indictment of the organisation for which I post would thus be dishonest and dishonourable
Sarah Benton
Postings manager
JfJfP
